Between Two Worlds

Mexican Immigrants in the United States
Herausgeber: Gutiérrez, David G

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Although immigrants enter the United States from virtually every nation, Mexico has long been identified in the public imagination as one of the primary sources of the economic, social, and political problems associated with mass migration. Between Two Worlds explores the controversies surrounding Mexicans as they establish new lives in an often intimidating foreign land. Drawing on insights provoked by recent trends in immigration research, Professor David Gutierrez has chosen eleven essays that provide an overview of some of the most important interpretation of the historical and contemporary dimensions of the Mexican diaspora. The opening articles chronicle the prejudice aimed toward Mexican Americans. Broadening the focus to include political as well as cultural themes, the next group of selections highlights issues such as acculturation, class, and the frequently shifting political stance of Mexican-Americans and Chicanos regarding the plight of new arrivals in the States. Finally, the closing essays take a hard look at present-day U.S. immigration policy in the context of both the signing of the North American Free Trade Agreement and the emergence of an increasingly global economy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 271
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 1996
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 160mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 558g
• ISBN-13: 9780842024730
• ISBN-10: 0842024735
• Artikelnr.: 22160279

Autorenporträt

David G. GutiZrrez is associate professor of history at the University of California, San Diego.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction Part 2 Historical Antecedents Chapter 3 The Sonoran
Migration to California, 1848-1856: A Study in Prejudice Chapter 4 Always
the Laborer, Never the Citizen: Anglo Perceptions of the Mexican Immigrant
during the 1920s Chapter 5 The Importation of Mexican Contract Laborers to
the United States, 1942-1964 Part 6 II Political and Cultural Contestation
Chapter 7 La Frontera: the Border as Symbol and Reality in Mexican-American
Thought Chapter 8 Caravans of Sorrow: Noncitizen Americans of the Southwest
Chapter 9 "Star Struck": Acculturation, Adolescence, and the
Mexican-American Woman, 1920-1950 Chapter 10 From Ranchero to Jaiton:
Ethnicity and Class in Texas-Mexican Music (Two Styles in the Form of a
Pair) Chapter 11 Sin Fronteras?: Chicanos, Mexican Americans, and the
Emergence of the Contemporary Mexican Immigration Debate, 1968-1978 Part 12
Contemporary Perspectives Chapter 13 U.S. Immigration Policy toward Mexico
in a Global Economy Chapter 14 Implications of the North American Free
Trade Agreement for Mexican Migration into the United States Chapter 15
Mexican Migration and the Social Space of Postmodernism